The Education Committee hosts a presentation and informal discussion about its activities, mission, structure, and how to become involved. Sessions from the SIGGRAPH 2016 Education Focus are highlighted.

Chairmain Ton Roosendaal hosts a presentation and open discussion of the past year's events and upcoming plans for the free and open-source Blender software project.

Educators forum to discuss obstacles to and best practices for establishing interdisciplinary programs.

Leading graphics educators share examples, experiences, and perspectives on using browsers to teach graphics programming.

Educators learn about production pipelines and discuss how to prepare students for the industry.

Focus on immersive visualization systems for science and research, scientific visualization information visualization, and art+science. Invited speakers and panels discuss collaborative initiatives in visualization and visual analytics frameworks.

This session focuses on how partnerships raise the bar through industry-related coursework. Creative talent and educators share knowledge on how to scale courses and projects to meet learning objectives.

Organized by the VCU chapter of ACM SIGGRAPH, VCU students, alumni, and friends and affiliates are welcomed to gather, have a bite, and reunite.

PLEASE NOTE: This Birds of a Feather Session takes place in the Hilton Anaheim hotel.

Current issues facing graphics educators in the VR era.

This session is for attendees interested in the power of the cloud to democratize creativity, transforming how and where we work, and with whom.

Industry representatives explain how to help students prepare to enter industry. Learn what students will face: hiring trends, getting noticed, tips for CVs, and more.

Session Lead: Glenn Goldman, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Jeff Brownlee (Legend3D)
Scott Campbell (Blizzard)
Patricia Kung (Animal Logic)
Andrea Pace (Sony Pictures Imageworks)

X3D progress and plans for projective texture mapping, CAD model conversions, mixed augmented reality, humanoid animation, C++/C# language bindings, and physical sensors. New participants are welcome! 환영합니다

PLEASE NOTE: This Birds of a Feather Session takes place in the Hilton Anaheim hotel.

Educators discuss best practices in undergraduate research and explore collaborations.

This forum explores conceptual art practices of the 1960s and 70s in relation to the rise of computer art, technology, and consciousness before the advent of the personal computer.

Discussion and presentation of Sagea: how combining simple UI, a dynamic community, and a blockchain economy can form a breakthrough new form of society that can only exist in virtual space.

This event, organized by Yoichiro Kawaguchi, invites guests to enjoy conversation and Japanese sake.

PLEASE NOTE: This Birds of a Feather Session takes place in the Hilton Anaheim hotel.

An opportunity for military and US Department of Defense artists to network and discuss common challenges and solutions.

An Oscar-winning VFX supervisor, a former Pixar animator and shorts director, and a VFX supervisor from Mirada: they're all doing VR projects. What will you ask them?

PLEASE NOTE: This Birds of a Feather Session takes place in the Hilton Anaheim hotel.

This session is for attendees interested in the current state of shader languages, their compilers, and the challenges of translating shaders across different APIs.

In media and entertainment, big data presents unique challenges. Let's all share knowledge on how we are each tackling this topic across companies around use-cases, architecture, reporting, and culture.

PLEASE NOTE: This Birds of a Feather Session takes place in the Hilton Anaheim hotel.

Interoperability and reproducibility are crucial concerns in medical imaging. This session includes discussion of current and next-generation applications and standardization efforts for volume rendering.

PLEASE NOTE: This Birds of a Feather Session takes place in the Hilton Anaheim hotel.

A presentation of ID Matte solutions by various studios and the presentation of the opensource solutions : OpenEXR/Id and Cryptomatte, followed by a discussion towards a potential industry open standard.

Declarative 3D is used for displaying interactive 3D VR content. This session discusses how it is done (orientation, stereographic) and options for the future using JavaScript, HTML5, and X3DOM.

PLEASE NOTE: This Birds of a Feather Session takes place in the Hilton Anaheim hotel.

This BoF is for attendees interested in entertainment technology (ET/CG/HCI) in film: a prelaunch opportunity for ET enthusiasts to participate in the first edition of Canada China International Film Festival.

A discussion of current and future graphics technologies in Qt, how different people use them, limitations, and solutions. Come and share your experiences with mixing widgets, QML, renderers, and more.

Join a discussion with key representatives from around the graphics community who are currently utilizing or helping to support elastic computing and gaining efficiency by pushing infrastructure to the cloud.

This session is for attendees interested in talking about the challenges, failures, and successes of character rigging, tools and technology, training, and where to go from here.

PLEASE NOTE: This Birds of a Feather Session takes place in the Hilton Anaheim hotel.

Discussion of large-scale rendering: render-farm infrastructure, software and queue management, remote data centers, reliability, and performance.

PLEASE NOTE: This Birds of a Feather Session takes place in the Hilton Anaheim hotel.

This session is for chief technology officers, chief information officers, or senior IT managers who are tasked with the strategic, operational, and development aspect of studio IT ecosystems.

PLEASE NOTE: This Birds of a Feather Session takes place in the Hilton Anaheim hotel.

Reception with the legends of VES from around the globe! Open to all VES members and one guest per member.

PLEASE NOTE: This Birds of a Feather Session takes place in the Hilton Anaheim hotel.

The Los Angeles Chapter is inviting ACM PIONEERS and VES legends to join the 25th anniversary of SIGGRAPH Chapter Parties. All LA Chapter members are invited, plus one additional guest.

PLEASE NOTE: This Birds of a Feather Session takes place in the Hilton Anaheim hotel.

Presentation and discussion of MaterialX, an open standard for transfer of rich material and look-development content between different DCC tools and renderers, with recent feature-film production examples.

PLEASE NOTE: This Birds of a Feather Session takes place in the Hilton Anaheim hotel.

The latest updates on using OpenVX and OpenCL to accelerate vision-processing applications ranging from embedded augmented reality to neural-net scene recognition in the cloud.

PLEASE NOTE: This Birds of a Feather Session takes place in the Hilton Anaheim hotel.

VFX and DI facilities worldwide are embracing ACEScg and ACEScc. Hear artists and technologists from top facilities discuss how they implemented ACES, and how their work benefited. Refreshments served.

A discussion of cloud-based processing (batch rendering, simulations, and transcoding) and problems and solutions related to network, storage, and performance.

PLEASE NOTE: This Birds of a Feather Session takes place in the Hilton Anaheim hotel.

Japan's advanced digital content technology including CG, VR/AR, UHD/3D will be presented. ex. FOVE: a VR head mount display with internal IR eye tracking sensors.

Millions of artifacts populate museums worldwide, all awaiting discovery online. See the latest mixed augmented reality techniques for 3D documentation and interaction for cultural and natural heritage.

PLEASE NOTE: This Birds of a Feather Session takes place in the Hilton Anaheim hotel.

Hear the latest news on the VFX Reference Platform industry collaboration and discuss software-versioning challenges and opportunities with your peers from both studios and software vendors.

PLEASE NOTE: This Birds of a Feather Session takes place in the Hilton Anaheim hotel.

This discussion includes information about the organization, the upcoming ISEA2017 Manizales, Colombia, “Bio-creation and Peace” and on ISEA2018 Durban/South Africa - “Here and Now”.

Contact: Sue Gollifer- Director

Discover the cutting edge in WebGL applications with fast-paced demos and presentations, including the upcoming glTF, the “JPEG for 3D” format specification.

PLEASE NOTE: This Birds of a Feather Session takes place in the Hilton Anaheim hotel.

This session is for people who live to see their complex wonderful simulations. People who live for simulation theory and anthropomorphic reality. Symbolic visualization for your thoughtful consideration.

A discussion of how and why to form a union in the visual effects industry. Open to all who are interested in the features, episodic, and games industries.

Presentations on the Leonardo/ISAST Art/Science programs, which always stimulate lively discussions about the joys and challenges of offering cross-disciplinary education to university students.

The success of the transmedia approach is a mix of storytelling, worldbuilding and the right technologies to address all digital contents properly to the audience while ensuring the business model.

The Los Angeles SIGGRAPH Chapter's annual session discusses how to expand your skills and knowledge for virtual and augmented reality.

Come join the people behind some of the industry's leading visual computing APIs and help us celebrate our many years of cooperation in the Khronos consortium.

PLEASE NOTE: This Birds of a Feather Session takes place in the Hilton Anaheim hotel.

Come meet the candidates vying for Director at Large on the ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Committee. The candidats discuss their visions and answer any questions you might have.